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Gizmodo has a very interesting story up today about the sell of a “potential” home of Adolph Hitler in Argentina. The basis of the idea is that Hitler escaped Germany and lived out his days in this remote Argentinian home – leaving two daughters as his legaacy. Interesting story, though I don’t personally believe it. [...]
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I found a really interesting story at The Wichita Eagle about how the end of mercury thermometers is coming soon. To me the mercury thermometer is a iconic image of both science and society, but it seems that much like the horse and buggy they are soon to be mostly a thing of the past. [...]
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A colleague shared this at work today and I wanted to share this online. It is a piece by Hans Rosling made for the BBC which visually displays the stats of age and wealth in 200 countries over 200 years. Very cool stuff.
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H/T to Pseudo-Polymath for this one Siris has a great post up about how many in the media are building stories about the AZ shooter without facts. I am tried of there being a rush to attach the acts of the insane to voices of descent on either side or to people that have no [...]
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Wired has a story up about the most complex clock in the world, built by Jaquet-Droz to celebrate the 1774 “robot” built with clock works by Pierre Jaquet-Droz. The new creations writes the time and cost about $371K to build. Full Piece Here
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AP has updated the caption on a 65 year old picture from WWII. The photo has been captioned / associated with the Bataan Death March, yet it turns out the photo is actually of US military burying the dead at a prison camp (Camp O’Donnell) that was at the end of the Bataan Death March. [...]
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[H/T to Switched for this one] Gizmodo has a really interesting story up about a HD TV that was developed and which worked in the 50′s. No way to connect your DVD player though. Full story here.
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It seems that the piece of skull long believed to have from Adolf Hitlers skull may actually be from a woman. BBC story heree. The Russians are debating the claim though, based on access records to the piece of skull in question. Telegraph story here.
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